Not many people noticed but at 6pm last night Radio Lichtenstein went dead.
The secretive tax haven, which has many more bank accounts than its 39,000 citizens, put the future of the radio station to its voters in a referendum. They shrugged and went back to Youtube.
That’s democracy, version2025.
More here.
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